plural of Scruton

(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). / (transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone).

Moving or directed from the right to the left.

(logic, model theory) The ⊨ symbol used to denote semantic consequence, or the ⊨ symbol used to denote the fact that the model to the left of it satisfies the set of sentences to its right.